About the Iowa Impact Fund
The University of Iowa must have the ability to be both assertively proactive and swiftly responsive in pursuing its mission of education, research, and service. When opportunities arise with strong potential for far-reaching and positive impact on the University’s core goals, the University must be able to direct resources without delay to develop these emerging opportunities.
As the UI’s only privately financed campus-wide unrestricted fund, the Iowa Impact Fund (IIF) provides crucial resources for such flexible investments, particularly where the expenditures in question fall outside of normal budget allotments or cross collegiate boundaries.
The IIF was designed to help the UI's alumni and friends channel their generosity at times and in ways that the University needs it most. In consultation with faculty and administrators from across the UI campus, the University president puts IIF contributions right to work:
- Facilitating student career-development and professional-development programs
- Encouraging innovations in teaching and learning across disciplinary boundaries
- Providing seed funding for graduate and professional programs that focus on emerging trends and disciplines
- Assisting the UI's libraries and museums in seeking out and securing the best possible acquisitions and resources
- Enabling key information-technology enhancements and innovations
- Enabling the UI President to recognize faculty and staff excellence
- Allowing the University to maintain outreach among UI alumni and friends
UI alumni and friends contribute substantial sums each year to help the University fulfill its mission. But almost all of those philanthropic resources are specifically earmarked—or restricted to narrowly defined uses—and cannot be applied to initiatives other than those designated by the contributors.
Givers to the unrestricted Iowa Impact Fund help the UI remain agile and flexible, so that possibilities are fully realized.
